James Gray Quotes
The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big business takeover of Hollywood is at fault rather than American storytellers - it's what keeps textured movies from getting made.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
Laura Esquivel
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
Ted Cruz
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
Hannah Storm
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
Farrah Fawcett
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
Rachel Maddow
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
Magdi Yacoub
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
Daniel Defoe
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I hate celebrities.
Manolo Blahnik
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If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
Jacob Epstein
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I was in Kenya when I read 'Catch-22,' and I associate this book that has nothing to do with Kenya - whenever I think of 'Catch-22,' I think of Nairobi.
D. B. Weiss
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
Samuel P. Huntington
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Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
Mandy Moore
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran
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The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is in decline. The interregnum after the Cold War, far from being the prelude to a new American age, was bearing the signs of what is now very visible: the emergence of a multipolar world.
Martin Jacques
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Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions.
John Lithgow
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It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big business takeover of Hollywood is at fault rather than American storytellers - it's what keeps textured movies from getting made.
James Gray